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Product Description: One of the oldest cities in the world, Beijing was an imperial capital for centuries. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Beijing became not only the political center of the new communist country, but also the signifier of socialist ideol-ogy and revolutionary culture...read more

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9781498531016 | Lexington Books, April 29, 2016, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: One of the oldest cities in the world, Beijing was an imperial capital for centuries.

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By Kirk A. Denton (editor)

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9780231170086 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 5, 2016, cover price $125.00

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9780231170093 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 5, 2016, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema, Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics...read more
By Xueping Zhong (editor)

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9780822360544 | Duke Univ Pr, February 26, 2016, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution.

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9780822360698 | Duke Univ Pr, February 26, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution.

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By Yingjin Zhang (editor)

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9781118451625 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 31, 2015, cover price $195.00

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Product Description: This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; critical and retrospective essays by influential writers, editors, and scholars; transcripts of historical speeches and conferences; literary-society manifestos and inaugural journal prefaces; and governmental policy pronouncements that have significantly influenced Taiwanese literature...read more
By Ming-ju Fan (editor)

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9780231165761 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 2, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

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Product Description: Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed, by a center of power...read more

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9780804789370 | Stanford Univ Pr, July 9, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state.

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Product Description: In Signposts of Self-Realization, Xinmin Liu offers an ontological study of education and development of the individual self through the prisms of ethical progress and social evolution in the context of modern Chinese literature and film...read more

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9789004196094 | Lam edition (Brill Academic Pub, February 20, 2014), cover price $175.00 | About this edition: In Signposts of Self-Realization, Xinmin Liu offers an ontological study of education and development of the individual self through the prisms of ethical progress and social evolution in the context of modern Chinese literature and film.

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Product Description: In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presents pivotal works of fiction published under the watchful eye of China's Communist regime between 1945 and 1980. Addressing questions of literary production, King looks at how writers dealt with shifting ideological demands, what indigenous and imported traditions inspired them, and how they were able to depict a utopian Communist future to their readers, even as the present took a very different turn...read more

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9780774823722 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, January 6, 2013, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presents pivotal works of fiction published under the watchful eye of China's Communist regime between 1945 and 1980.

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9780774823739 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, February 21, 2014, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presents pivotal works of fiction published under the watchful eye of China's Communist regime between 1945 and 1980.

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Product Description: This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and accelerate the emergence of a relatively affluent urban leisure-reading market...read more

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9780415559690 | Routledge, September 10, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media.

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Product Description: In Fragmenting Modernisms , Carolyn FitzGerald traces the evolution of Chinese modernism during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-45) and Chinese Civil War (1945-49) through a series of close readings of fiction, poetry, film, and visual art.

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9789004250987 | Brill Academic Pub, June 7, 2013, cover price $174.00 | About this edition: In Fragmenting Modernisms , Carolyn FitzGerald traces the evolution of Chinese modernism during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-45) and Chinese Civil War (1945-49) through a series of close readings of fiction, poetry, film, and visual art.

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Product Description: Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were greatly and obviously affected by political events...read more

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9781137306982 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 8, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were greatly and obviously affected by political events.

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Product Description: Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance between Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often referred to as the Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Bloomsbury constellation...read more

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9781570035050 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $59.95

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9781611171488 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, January 2, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance between Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935.

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By Yang Xiaobin (editor)

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9781443809740 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, July 1, 2009, cover price $75.95

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Product Description: Die Schriftstellerin Lu Yin, mit ursprünglichem Namen Huang Ying (1899-1934), ist zu der Zeit der Bewegung vom 4. Mai sehr bekannt und hat sich neben Bing Xin als populärste Autorin Anerkennung erworben. Lu Yins Kurzgeschichten und Essays wurden in großer Zahl in der Xiaoshuo Yuebao, einer der führenden Literaturzeitschriften der 20er Jahre, publiziert...read more

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9783631592526 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 4, 2009, cover price $83.95 | About this edition: Die Schriftstellerin Lu Yin, mit ursprünglichem Namen Huang Ying (1899-1934), ist zu der Zeit der Bewegung vom 4.

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Product Description: How have the lyrics of poets and songwriters, traditionally voices of protest against domination and exploitation in Chinese society, responded to the forces of cultural imperialism and nationalistic ideology that have accompanied the modernization of Chinese society in the last half of this century...read more

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9780822316718 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: How have the lyrics of poets and songwriters, traditionally voices of protest against domination and exploitation in Chinese society, responded to the forces of cultural imperialism and nationalistic ideology that have accompanied the modernization of Chinese society in the last half of this century.

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